Excerpt from The Dog: And How to Break Him, With His Diseases and Methods of CureIT is not irrelevant to a work like the one now offered to the notice of the public to take a retro spective glance at the subject on which it pro fesses to treat 5 but any very lengthened observa tions on the origin or natural history of the dog, whilst they could only be repetitions of a thrice told tale, familiar even in the nursery, would be super¿uous in a small book, the end and aim of which is, to give practical instructions (the result of long practice) on the best methods of breeding and training dogs for the gun, and making them perfect in the field.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.